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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Today's feature is of a super talented quilter/teacher/designer Sue Spargo. Sue used all sorts of mediums on her quilts, felts, scrap, beads, and embroidery. Her designs are fresh, new and very detailed. We are truly inspired by her work. She holds several workshops all over the country, and some out of the country. Sue is truly an inspired quilter and we are honored to feature her work here. Make sure to go check out her website and her blog.

Each year I do a BOM on through my website. It is very popular and is limited to
300 participants. The center of this quilt was the BOM from last year. I
absolutely loved creating it. It was inspired by my visits to Italy and the
wonderful birds that flew in and out of the hedgerows in the Tuscan hills.

It has 13 different birds on the vine which are all embellished with different
ribbons. The background is a combination of different hand dyed wools and the
applique is fun cottons, hand dyed wool and velvet and taffeta silks.

I am very fortunate as my sister Wendy does all the dyeing of my wools and
velvets so I have a wonderful assortment of colors to pull from. Once I had
finished the center I decided to make mine into a queen size quilt adding the
large applique borders. I am very please with the finished quilt.

I wrote a book 'Robin Run the Hedge' in May and now you have the opportunity to
make a wallhanging or bed quilt for your self. I have taught this quilt many
times which can be viewed on my blog using different color combinations.

Sue will be posting her new BOM for 2011 this week. It will be called 'Imperial
Blooms' - large flowers heavily embellished with stitching. This will be very popular, so get signed up!